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Hall, James W. Blackwater Sound: A Novel
St. Martin's Paperbacks November 18, 20 0-312-98628-9 / 9780312986285 Paperback Very Good+
A powerful Florida family, its high-tech fortune dwindling, is haunted by an elusive, enormous blue marlin that claimed the life of its eldest son, w ho was meant to restore the family's prominence. But the Braswells are tor mented by even darker secrets, such as incest and treason, that drive this dark, atmospheric thriller to an explosive conclusion, which might have b een pulled straight from recent headlines. James Hall pits Thorn, his seri es protagonist, against the Braswells and their deadly plans. Although an existentially morose antihero is a convention of the mystery genre, Hall m anages to transcend it with a fascinating plot and a powerful narrative, r esulting in a suspenseful and resonant novel that shows off his well-devel oped talents for character development, place, and pacing. The author of 1 1 previous mysteries (including Mean High Tide and Rough Draft), Hall gets better with every book, and this one continues the trend.
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Hall, James Red Sky at Night
Dell June 8, 1998 0-440-22574-4 / 9780440225744 Paperback Very Good
Hall's hermit-sleuth Thorn has long been one of the most appealing and comp lex characters in crime fiction, but here he extends his range still furthe r, taking the Travis McGee^-style genre hero to an altogether new level. En sconced in his Key Largo beach house, Thorn seems to have carved a lasting separate peace with the modern world until a senseless crime drives the oth er side of his personality to the fore, the side that says, "There's someth ing broken, and I have to fix it." What's broken this time, though, is Thor n himself, mysteriously paralyzed from the waist down after attempting to c onfront an apparent prowler. The story begins with the slaughter of several dolphins--killed for their endorphins, the key ingredient in a miracle, pa in-killing drug--and extends to Thorn's distant past and his relationship w ith his best childhood friend, who has been nursing a grudge against Thorn for decades. All of Thorn's unresolved conflicts--Is he running away from t he world or trying to save it?--come to the fore here, as Hall makes his he ro (and the reader) face simultaneously the pain of powerlessness and the s elfishness at the heart of a knight errant's gallantry. And yet, we cheer w hen Thorn sallies forth one more time, wheelchair-bound but determined to d raw on the "white knot of gristle at his stubborn core." Melding the magnet ic pull of the archetypal hero on a quest with the flesh-and-blood humanity of a vulnerable man trapped between conflicting needs, Hall masterfully wo rks both ends of the genre street, transforming the beach-bum sleuth into a n everyman while at the same time allowing readers to wonder if perhaps we,
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